Unlikely Travel Guide: Can A Comic Inspire Travel?

Georgia Brown
The Guardian

In the days before TV, the clear-line graphics of creator Georges Rémi, aka Hergé, were a kind of National Geographic for kids. From Russia to Tibet, Egypt to America, Tintin travelled -- accompanied by his faithful dog Snowy and the irascible Captain Haddock - to solve crimes and become an early champion of the rights of local indigenous people in 23 books published from 1929 onwards.